All posts filed under: UVic Undergraduate Internship

Reflection on the Pussy Palace: Coding for Identity Shifts

February 26, 2022
by Alisha Stranges
Interview Coding / Pussy Palace Project / UVic Undergraduate Internship

Beginning in January 2022, the Collaboratory invited UVic undergraduate Amanda Thomson to participate in a 4-week volunteer internship with the Pussy Palace Oral History Project, supporting the team in preparing oral history interviews for coding in NVivo and experimenting with the software by coding a few interviews herself. Here are her reflections on the experience.  I have been volunteering with the LGBTQ Oral History Digital Collaboratory’s Pussy Palace Oral History Project (PPOHP) since early January […]

Realizing the Value of Stories: Transcribing the Pussy Palace Oral Histories

February 23, 2022
by Alisha Stranges
Pussy Palace Project / Transcribing / UVic Undergraduate Internship

Beginning in January 2022, the Collaboratory invited UVic undergraduates Faith Lapointe and Ellis Martiskainen to participate in a 4-week volunteer internship with the Pussy Palace Oral History Project, supporting the team in transcribing the oral history interviews in preparation for donation to The ArQuives: Canada’s LGBTQ2+ Archives. We are pleased to share that Faith and Ellis are continuing their work with us on the project. Here are their reflections on the experience so far… If […]